· Private foundation
The Edward Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $70,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $35,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| OPERA AMERICA | $25,000 |
| BOSTON LYRIC OPERA | $25,000 |
| BOSTON LYRIC OPERA | $25,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $20,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $20,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $19,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| BOSTON LYRIC OPERA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| OPERA AMERICA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +94%
HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $626k · revenue +139%
WGBH Educational Foundation4× · 2021–2025 · $184k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TTTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +57%
- RLRalph Lowell Society WGBHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
How this is measured
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VINCENT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PINE MANOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation · Grayson Family Foundation · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · Edmund & Betsy Cabot Charitable Fndn · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Schmaltz Enroth Family Foundation · The Elm Grove Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Truettner Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Edward Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Tall Timbers Research Inc: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project: 6% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
- Gore Place Society: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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